The Catholic church recognized the efforts of the government of Claudia Sheinbaum for the implementation of a plan which aims to build peace in the country, which is why he called on citizens to join the initiative.
From the most recent editorial “From Faith”, the Catholic Church showed itself in favor of Claudia Sheinbaum’s disarmament plancalled ‘Yes to disarmament, yes to peace‘, which the president of Mexico herself started last Friday, January 10, 2025 from the Basilica of Guadalupe.
At the start of the program, Sheinbaum assured that ‘Yes to disarmament, yes to peace’ consists of any family or person voluntarily handing over a weapon in their possession in exchange for cash and guaranteed that no one will be investigated.
“Without investigating anyone, if there is a weapon in the home, it is handed over, financial resources are received in exchange and the weapon is destroyed, that is the objective of this program, that there are no weapons in our country”
Claudia Sheinbaum. President of Mexico
Catholic Church trusts Claudia Sheinbaum’s disarmament plan to seek peace in Mexico
The Catholic Church trusted that the peace building in Mexico It can be achieved hand in hand with the religious institution through the disarmament plan of Claudia Sheinbaum’s government at the national level.
In its editorial text, the church said that the opening of its atriums for this campaign It is done with the hope of greater coordination between government and societywith the aim of generating deep processes in the reconstruction of communities.
“In this search for paz“The Church has a different task than the government, businessmen, and other social sectors, but it is a fact that, when it comes to rebuilding the social fabric, we can all contribute something,” said the religious institution.
He expressed that achieving pacification in the country is urgent and necessaryso they will join Claudia Sheinbaum’s plan “with the confidence that there will be many more public policies aimed at working for peace.”
Claudia Sheinbaum starts the program ‘Yes to disarmament, yes to peace’ (Galo Cañas Rodríguez/Cuartoscuro)
Catholic Church invites citizens to work so that “the guns remain silent” with Claudia Sheinbaum’s plan
The Catholic Church invited the entire society to work to achieve the disarmament of the inhabitants of Mexico through the plan by Claudia Sheinbaumas well as so that young people do not find an alternative to their problems in a weapon.
Likewise, the institution called on address the consequences and suffering that weapons have caused in the country.
“We invite the entire society to work so that weapons remain silent, so that young people do not find an alternative in a pistol or a rifle, so that we heed the cry of pain and suffering that weapons have caused in thousands of families, to move to the closed, wounded or lonely hearts, which today find satisfaction in the sound of bullets.”
Catholic church
Sheinbaum highlighted that the objective of the program is that no family has a gun in Mexico, where 200,000 enter from the United States every year.